Warehouse and Surplus Store receives NACAS innovation award

November 20, 2012

The Purdue Warehouse and Surplus Store has won the 2012 NACAS
Innovative Achievement in Auxiliary Services Award for its work in extending
the useful life of University assets, diverting waste from landfills and
returning funds to University departments.

NACAS (National Association of College Auxiliary Services) is
a nonprofit higher education association serving auxiliary services, student
support services, and ancillary services professionals at four-year and two-year colleges
and universities. NACAS provides opportunities for members to share ideas,
develop business solutions, enhance programs and revenues and develop
professional relationships.

The Innovative Achievement Award recognizes unique services,
products or programs, resulting enhancements to customer service, increases in
revenue and the initiative's adaptability and potential to be implemented by
similar organizations.

At an awards ceremony this fall, Physical Facilities and the
Office of University Sustainability recognized the Warehouse and Surplus Store
staff for their hard work and dedication to providing innovative, quality
services.

The NACAS Innovative Achievement Award is the third award the
department has earned this year in recognition of its work on the Billboard and
Recycling for the Future initiatives. Prior awards include the APPA Effective
and Innovative Practices Award and a first-place finish in the inaugural
electronics division of RecycleMania.

Designed to help reallocate items across all Purdue campuses,
the Billboard program gives departments an avenue to acquire items no longer in
use by other University departments or to transfer their own items to other
areas. The Billboard has resulted in a reduction of University expenditures and
is available to the Purdue community at https://www.purdue.edu/salvage/billboard/billboardoverview.aspx.

The Recycling for the Future program, by using data security
practices and electronics recycling, offers a systematic, auditable, reliable
and secure process for the disposal of electronic media. Once the electronic
media reaches the University Warehouse and Surplus Store, it is dismantled into
parts that can be recycled or resold. To ensure data security, items that once
contained University data are shredded with an industrial shredder and the
shredding byproducts are then disposed of in an environmentally friendly
manner.

The Purdue University Warehouse and Surplus Store is committed
to continuous improvement and sharing its innovative approach to environmental
and fiscal responsibility with peer institutions. Representatives of the
Warehouse and Surplus Store gave a presentation outlining the Billboard and
Recycling for the Future programs at the national NACAS conference in October in
Atlanta.